'Honey Crisp" has bright red and yellow colouring with a crisp and sweet taste. Great for baking, sauces, cider, fresh eating and salads. This is a self pollinating variety making it a great addition as a stand alone tree in a small yard or as an addition to a larger orchard. When the apples are stored properly they can be stored up to 7 months. Honey Crisp is more scab and fire blight resistant than some other varieties of apples. For best production of fruit extra care is required. Dormant Oil should be used when tree is dormant to kill over wintering bugs and diseases. Pruning should be done every winter. 

Fruit: Medium bright red skin with a slightly yellow tinge. A crisp, juicy and sweet apple. 

Uses: Juices, pies/ baking, cider, salads, sauces,

Pollination: Self pollinator. Other Apple varieties Honey Crisp will cross pollinate with: Cortland, Empire, Freedom, Gala, Golden Delicious, Lobo, Northern Spy, Red Delicious, Yellow Transparent, Haralred, Haralson, Sweet Sixteen, Wolf River and Honey Crisp

Harvest Time: Late September

Height: 12'-15'

Width: 12'-15'

Light: Full sun

Soil Type: Loamy, sandy can tolerate some clay, but good drainage is a must. Prefers neutral pH

Pruning: winter

Zone: 4

Pruning Apple trees: Only prune 20% of your tree a year, do it during winter and when you cut near the truck do not cut the ‘collar’ of the branch off.

Pruning Apple trees is an important part of keeping your tree healthy and producing good fruit for a long time, as well having good air flow and light reduces pests and disease problems. The end result is a tree with open branches that lets air flow through and allows light into the middle of the tree.

Getting started; prune fruit trees in winter while tree is dormant and clean your pruners, loppers and saws with bleach solution. You will need pruners, possibly a hand saw, a ladder depending on size of tree and for safety reasons let someone know if you are going in the tree or up a ladder.

Looking at your tree you need to decide if it needs ‘thinning out’ or needs to be ‘headed back’ . Thinning out refers to taking out complete branches. Headed back refers to making branches shorter.

You are looking to remove branches that are:

Dead: branches that are not living they will not produce leaves, blooms and may cause disease or rot problems.

Damaged: branches that have broken, have welts or major cuts, extreme bark loss due to natural human/animal causes

Diseased: branches that have cankers, abnormal secretion or odd growths. These branches may be showing signs of disease and should be removed before it affects the rest of the tree.

On old fully grown apple trees that require more difficult pruning such as; taking a scaffold branches (large main branches), Sail branches (looks like another tree on the tree), or water sprouts (straight up branches usually caused from improper pruning). Some of these branches require 3 cuts to remove the branches without damage to the tree. Ask one of our professionals in store about these more difficult pruning’s.